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Article: No more TV. No more books. I'm reciped out; After 30 years of teaching a nation how to cook, Delia Smith reveals why she is abandoning her millions of fans.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 20, 2003
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Byline: LUCY CAVENDISH
DELIA Smith is perched on a stool, sitting at the end of a cooking counter. Norwich City Football Club, of which she is a director, stretches before her out of the brand-new, specially designed panoramic expansive windows of The Carvery function room. "On match days, Louise," she tells me (she insists on calling me Louise all day), "this is packed. We do 350 covers for lunch up here and all those wooden boxes by the windows turn into seats!"
Very modern, I say. "Extremely modern," she says excitedly. But this is all later when she talks to me at great length about how many pies they sell here at Carrow Road on match days (4,000) ...